The sign on Kristi Noem's podium reads "One of ours, all of yours." The reader will recall that this was a fascist rallying cry in the Spanish Civil War. What it means is that one of "our" people is worth all of "your" people.

Zack Polanski, "I think we need to make racism unacceptable again" "People acknowledge that our problems are about inequality"

Predator: Badlands was fun, but is this a 12-rated franchise now? Will Wallace & Gromit be in the next one? Also, leave the Alien universe alone, kthxbye.

I see Linus is proving that none of us is immune from the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

Meanwhile, on LinkedIn...

Yes, human programmers can create problematic code, too. But not at that speed.

Watching a film-making masterclass with James Cameron on YouTube. I get a very strong sense that he's thought about things A LOT. It's 3 hours long, of course.

Where can I cancel my two weeks free trial of 2026 before the deadline?

Something I find fascinating about LLM-generated code is what someone's opinion about it reveals about where they might sit in the model's training data distribution.

Sorry, DT. The Nobel committee isn't one of your golf clubs.

BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph

Aside from it being very obviously made-up ("AI" refactored and re-tested a 17 KLOC module in 30 minutes), your boast about it splitting those 17,000 lines into 12 source files isn't the flex you think it is.

It's not voters fault. It's the fault of a media which deliberately spreads misinformation.

Minneapolis won’t be intimidated by Trump’s secret police force. #ICEOutForGood

Being a software developer reading claims about "agentic AI" reminds me a little of being a teenager listening to my friends boasting about all the sex they were having.

Are we *quite* sure it happened in that order?

Big mistake in s/w development is believing the "value" that "flows" is in the software that emerges from our delivery pipeline - the output. The *real* value is in the FEEDBACK that flows /back/ in to future iterations. It's not in what we deliver, it's in what we *learn* from what we deliver.

There's little doubting that the software delivery pipeline - integrate, build, test and deploy - is critical to lead times. So it's surprising just how few developers have the skills to create and evolve delivery pipelines. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/w...

If a restaurant served you a perfectly-cooked steal with a cockroach on it, would your feedback be "It was perfectly cooked, but there was a cockroach on it"? Or would you just see the cockroach and conclude the steak's inedible? In case you're wondering what impact bugs have on user feedback.

At this point, why does the press even bother asking him questions?

And a tacit admission that the code in their training data is some distance from real-world production code, which goes some way to explaining why their models crap out on it so often. Real code is out-of-distribution.

The thing that depresses me in the whole AI revolution in my industry (I’m a literary translator and publisher) is that the question is not whether machines can replace human translators, but how will we deal with the fallout after machines are forcibly introduced regardless.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

There's little doubting that the software delivery pipeline - integrate, build, test and deploy - is critical to lead times. So it's surprising just how few developers have the skills to create and evolve delivery pipelines. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/w...

Like a burglar giving a speech as he steals your Oscar

What TF is "Tai Chi Walking" and who TF is bankrolling all these adverts on YouTube?

The value of a software tester increases the earlier in the process you involve them. If you're throwing software over the wall at them and they're asking "What's it supposed to do?"... Well, that's just silly.

We were feet away from the stage. One of our party was overpowered by the dairy-based cocktails (as in to a nearby flower bed - taxi!), so I only met Nancy briefly. One of my favourite vocalists working today in jazz. Sang live via Zoom for my 50th www.youtube.com/watch?v=crsm...

"We'll only let users generate child pornography if they pay us" Okay then, Elmo. That should fix the problem.

While I'm about it, there are multiple @zackpolanski.bsky.social's on Mastodon. Will the real one stand up, please? Wouldn't want to follow a bot.

The reason I joined the Green Party - some years ago now - is because I'd spent my adult life watching mainstream politics taking all the obvious solutions off the table to suit the super-rich (and themselves).

A truly great country would lift people up. It wouldn't act as a bully. Bullying is cowardice. It is weakness. These cruel, petty cowards have to go. Now.

If Machado hsnds over her peace prize to foster peace, Nobel should immediately give her another one. A solid gold one. And call it the "champion of champions peace prize".

When we talk about "AI", it may help to be a bit more specific. If you mean "sausages", don't just say "food".

More and more developers are discovering that Test-Driven Development is highly compatible with "AI"-assisted software engineering. (And a quick reminder that my 2-day TDD training workshop is half-price if you book by Jan 31st. Which is nice.) codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/w...

"But anything you do say..."

If someone introduced themselves as a "health expert", I'd assume they weren't an actual doctor. Because a doctor would say "I'm a doctor", or "I'm a consultant neurologist" etc. "Health expert" puts me in mind of the people they bring on TV talk shows to argue with actual doctors. See also: "AI"

If your response to "AI" code generation is to bring back BDUF, Waterfall and code-and-fix development... Well, I wish you the very best of luck with that.

What's that? The owner of the fried chicken shop tweeted his diet now consists of 90% fried chicken cooked in his shop, and it's working out just great? No, I don't need to read that peer-reviewed study in the BMJ. This is all the evidence I need! But... just cooked in his shop, right? Cool.

"Agile, and other modern development methods"

Tonight's move is The Abyss Special Edition.

Except when they question Nigel Farage☹️

Couldn't give a clearer green light if they tried.

Simultaneously manually testing software and fixing the bugs it finds is a bit like modifying a list while you're iterating through it. Each "fix" can introduce new bugs (and reintroduce some old favourites). The risk of getting stuck in a non-terminating loop is very real.

"Don't politicise our slide into fascism!"

"world's most powerful quantum computer" is a bit like saying "world's smartest plank" (pun intended)

"Oh, but Jason, we can't just <thing I just do>" Turns out you can.

How can we do continuous testing without a QA team? Well, the first step towards it might be not having a separate QA team.

Yes

I'm looking for the clause in the Online Safety Act that says "unless you're a tech billionaire"